Amid forced confessions and torture over the deaths of Moghiseh and Razini, deliberate medical neglect continues despite his severe heart disease, diabetes, and paralysis.
“Mohammad Ali Akbari, 58, a political prisoner from the 1980s, was re-arrested in Tehran on January 21, 2025—three days after his son Amir Hassan’s arrest—following five months in solitary confinement after the 2022 uprising.”
Mohammad Ali Akbari Monfared, 58, a political prisoner held in Fashafouyeh Prison who is paralyzed in both legs and suffers from heart and brain diseases, severe diabetes, and prostate illness, was transferred to Tajrish Hospital on Wednesday, August 27, 2025, due to a diabetes-related infection in his leg. However, the executioners left his treatment unfinished and, despite blood clots in his leg, returned him to prison. The infirmary of Fashafouyeh Prison refused to admit him due to his critical condition, and he was transferred to Haft-e-Tir Hospital in Shahr-e Rey. This hospital also refused to admit him, and he was again returned to prison.
Last week, the Legal Medicine Organization stated that Mohammad Ali Akbari’s condition is so severe that he cannot endure imprisonment. Therefore, according to the regime’s own laws, he must be released, yet the Ministry of Intelligence is preventing his freedom.
Mohammad Ali Akbari, 58, a political prisoner from the 1980s, was arrested again during the 2022 uprising and spent five months in solitary confinement in Ward 209 of Evin Prison. On January 21, 2025, three days after the arrest of his son Amir Hassan Akbari, he was once more arrested in Tehran. On July 3, 2025, the Secretariat of the National Council of Resistance of Iran issued a statement declaring that the lives of political prisoners Arghavan Fallahi, Bijan Kazemi, Mohammad and Amir Hassan Akbari Monfared—who are under interrogation and torture for forced confessions about the deaths of Moghiseh and Razini—are in danger.
The PMOI members Alireza, Gholamreza, Abdolreza, and Roghieh Akbari Monfared were executed by Khomeini’s henchmen in the 1980s. Their sister, Maryam Akbari Monfared, the mother of three children, is now in her sixteenth year of imprisonment for seeking justice for the blood of those martyrs. She has never been granted a single day of medical leave despite her illnesses. After completing her 15-year prison sentence, the Judiciary of the executioners fabricated another case against her and sentenced her to an additional two years in prison.
The Iranian Resistance calls on the UN Human Rights Council, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, the UN Special Rapporteur, and international human rights organizations to take immediate action to save the life of Mohammad Ali Akbari and to stop the slow death of prisoners by depriving them of medical care, a well-known method of the clerical regime and a clear example of crimes against humanity.
Secretariat of the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI)
29 September 2025